Mellanox Technologies releases 100Gb/s ConnectX-4 adapter

Mellanox Technologies has announced the ConnectX-4 single/dual-port 100Gb/s VPI (Virtual Protocol Interconnect) adapter. The ConnectX-4 doubles the throughput in comparison to the previous generation, and provides 10, 20, 25, 40, 50, 56, and 100Gb/s throughput over Ethernet or Infiniband. This incredible throughput can deliver over 150 million messages per second with a latency of 7 microseconds. It also supports RDMA, GPUDirect and SR-IOV.